Women, water and memory
Subtitle: recasting lives in Palestine
By: by Nefissa  Naguib.
Series: Women and gender: the Middle East and the Islamic world
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789004167780
Subjects: Women, Palestinian Arab -- Social life and custom; Women storytellers -- Palestine; Women, Palestinian Arab -- Social conditions; Women and religion -- Palestine
Description: This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, Water and Memory speaks of many different lives. We hear stories about women's own strength and beauty, and about the woman who married a man whose ugly face made her sick. While one woman married the man she cared for, another was relieved that her husband died when she was too old to be forced to remarry. We learn about the joy they feel each time they dance at a wedding, the sheer satisfaction of lighting a cigarette, the loyalty and shared despair towards families with members in prison, and about the tears of sorrow at each death and the delight at each birth. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: adat; title: Customs; title: asabiyya; title: Blood relatives; title: ayn; title: Water spring; title: Baraka; title: Blessing; title: Calla; title: Large kerosene can; title: Dar; title: Home, household; title: Din; title: Religion; title: eswah; title: Support or patronage; title: Fi sabil Allah; title: For the love of god; title: Hamulah (pl; title: Hamayel); title: Lineage or clan; title: Khala; title: Open landscape; title: Iqtaxi; title: Feudal; title: Jarra; title: Large clay water jar; title: Jebel; title: Mountain; title: Malli; title: water; title: Maqam; title: Shrine; title: Nabiyya; title: Used to refer to water's goodness; title: Nasab; title: Relatives (sometimes it was inter-changed; title: With; title: {asabiyya); title: Taboun; title: Outside stone oven; title: Taqalid; title: Traditions; title: Tayyib; title: Used to describe fertile soil; title: Zulm; title: Injustice.